The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-14

away kept Il Df1glJ
out for that fellow when was in India. but
| never saw him. Perhaps he had gone up
the rope and stayed there while | was in
India
The Professor grinned at his little joke
and took piece of cigarette paper from his
pocket. He tore the paper into shreds and
handed it to his visitor rolled up into little
ball.
mUnroll the paper carefully said he
The visitor did so, and 10 and behold! the
paper was intact and had evidently never
been torn. This was evidently the case but
confound the luck! how did he do it,
u never explain how do my tricks, y said
the Professor. "If should attempt to ex-
plain them probably only few out of my
audience would understand the explanation.
l do occasionally partly explain how l
do some tricks, but | usually leave
the lookers-on much more mystifed
than they were before. 1t would not be
right for me to give the secrets of the craft
away. A great many of the tricks
performed by ME are also performed by
other men, and it would be an injustice on
my part to destroy their stock in trade Be-
sides, anything new in this line of business is
hard to get, and is jealousy preserved when
discovered. | keep two men in Europe con-
stantly on the search for novelties, and it is
my intention to sail for the other side in a
few weeks on purpose toprepare an entirely
new programme for my next seasons work
l am preparing a small book of about fifty
pages, containing record of curious things
that have happened to me on the steam
boats and railroad cars"
Your skill must be an unfailing source
OF amusement to you when travelling, is il
notW
Decidedly SO. Recently was coming to
this city from Boston in a palace car When
the conductor came around to collect his
tickets the passengers were unable to find
them. Pockets were turned inside out
satchels were ransacked, and the cushions OF
could be found. At last l said to the con.
ductor:
What is the difficulty, STRIP
The passengers have lost their tickets,
he replied.
"'You have the tickets, SIR said l. III
is to be hoped that you are not trying to de
fraud the passengersr
He grew as red in the face as a pot OF
red paint, and replied
eff you intend to reflect on my honesty
sir, I'll knock your two eyes into one
There is no occasion for you to lose
your temper said |. If you will take of
your cap you will find the tickets inside the
lining.
''Sure enough, the tickets were where
had indicated. He apologized to me, and !
afterward learned that he went into the
baggage car and examined the tickets with
a microscope to be certain that they were
not counterfeits.
Il had quite laughable affair with the
colored porter of the same train. He asked
me for my ticket, and when l told him that
he already had it and pulled it out of his
vest pocket his eyes almost forsook their
sockets He evidently thought l was in
league with Satan, for he thrust his hands
palms outward, toward me, and his face
was bleached a dirty ashen hue as he ex
claimed:
CHOW you go way FIN me, Mr.. Herr
mann. / knows We. Don't want none o
yer debbil tricks round yere.'"
When the Professor became animated in
conversation he leaned over close to his
visitor, and his eyes seemed to blaze with
the uncanny fires of the internal regions
Always self-poised and thoroughly master
of himself, yet volcanic fires seemed burning
beneath his cool exterior which might breaE
for,that any moment, No wonder the darkey
feared him.
Among the incidents which he related
was one in regard to an episode in the Bur
nett Hotel in Cincinnati Some one asked
him to play joke on the barber connected
with the hotel. After the barber hac
lathered and shaved one side of his face the
beard miraculously grew out again. The
barber shaved him twice, and still there
was as heavy a beard as when he began
The barber threw down his razor and left
the SHOP in hurry The incident had such
serious effect upon the barber that it was
thought he would have to be sent to q
lunatic asylum.
The professor is being assisted in his pres
ent engagement at the Bijou by his wife
who is an English woman. The professor is
Frenchman. Mrs. Herman appears or
| the stage as a page, dressed in velvet
Knickerbockers, and wearing blonde wig
She also goes to sleep III the air, with her
elbow resting on the upper end of a crowbaI
standing in the centre of the stage This is
one of the professors most wonderful
rackets, but he stubbornly refuses to ex
plain how he does it.
He closes his entertainment each night by
| iamming dilapidated stovepipe hat into Q
mortar and then firing the hat up toward
the ceiling. After flying round the room
awhile like monstrous bat the hat finally
comes into occulation with the ceiling, from
whence the professor diSlodges it with a
pistol ball, and it falls gently as snow
flake upon the head of its owner in the au-
dience as smooth as though it had just come
from the hatter's hands.
Another of his most successful feats is tc
roll two extremely lively rabbits into one.
1t is the intention of Prof. Hermann tC
exhibit next year in this city the S75, 00t
worth of Jewels and medals of which he has
been the recipient in his brilliant career.
He regards America as the greatest coun
try on the face of the earth, especially foi
making money. His books show that
Americans like magic, for in thirty-fvt
weeks commencing in September last anC
ending in May, he realized a clean profit Of
S31 ,476. In England, he says, there are
pennies ard shillings, in France francs, ant
| in America dollars.